Exploring the dynamic growth, change, and complexity of qualitative research in human geography, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography brings together leading scholars in the field to examine its history, assess the current state of the art, and project future directions.
"In its comprehensive coverage, accessible text, and range of illustrative studies, past and present, the Handbook has established an impressive new standard in presenting qualitative methods to geographers."
- David Ley, University of British Columbia

Moving beyond textbook rehearsals of standard issues, the Handbook shows how empirical details of qualitative research can be linked to the broader social, theoretical, political, and policy concerns of qualitative geographers and the communities within which they work. The book is organized into three sections:

Introduction: Engaging Qualitative Geography - Dydia DeLyser et alPART ONE: OPENINGSIntroduction - Dydia DeLyserA History of Qualitative Research in Geography - Meghan Cope'Throwntogetherness': Encounters with Difference and Diversity - Stuart C AitkenA Taut Rubber Band: Theory and Empirics in Qualitative Geographic Research - Steve HerbertPolicy, Research Design and the Socially Situated Researcher - Kari B Jensen and Amy K GlasmeierMixed Methods: Thinking, Doing and Asking in Multiple Ways - Sarah ElwoodPART TWO: ENCOUNTERS AND COLLABORATIONSIntroduction - Steve HerbertEthnography and Participant Observation - Annette Watson and Karen E TillAutoethnography as Sensibility - David ButzInterviewing: Fear and Liking in the Field - Linda McDowellLife History Interviewing - Peter Jackson and Polly RussellFocus Groups as Collaborative Research Performances - Fernando J Bosco and Thomas HermanVisual Methods and Methodologies - Mike CrangDoing Landscape Interpretation - Nancy Duncan and James DuncanCaught in the Nick of Time: Archives and Fieldwork - Hayden LorimerTextual and Discourse Analysis - Jason DittmerGIS as Qualitative Research: Knowledge, Participatory Politics and Cartographies of Affect - Stuart C Aitken and Mei-Po Kwan'A Little Bird Told Me ...': Approaching Animals through Qualitative Methods - Mona Seymour and Jennifer WolchPerformative, Non-Representational and Affect-Based Research: Seven Injunctions - J D DewsburyPART THREE: MAKING SENSEIntroduction - Mike CrangWriting Qualitative Geography - Dydia DeLyserThe Art of Geographic Interpretation - Sara MacKianRepresenting the Other: Negotiating the Personal and the Political - Garth MyersMajor Disasters and General Panics: Methodologies of Activism, Affinity and Emotion in the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Paul RoutledgeReflections on Teaching Qualitative Methods in Geography - Deborah G Martin